A 57-YEAR-OLD Wirral man who admitted repeatedly sexually abusing a girl and boy has been jailed for 10 years.

A 57-YEAR-OLD Wirral man who admitted repeatedly sexually abusing a girl and boy has been jailed for 10 years.

Robert Kipling, of Ganneys Meadow Road, Woodchurch, pleaded guilty at Liverpool crown court to 19 offences involving nine indecent assaults on the boy, six on the girl and four serious sexual offences on the girl.

Anthony O'Donohoe, prosecuting, said that the offences, which were specimen counts, began in 1978 when the boy was just four years old and increased in seriousness until he was seven.

Kipling began molesting the girl when she was six and assaulted her on repeated occasions ending when she was 10.

The offences came to their parents attention in 1983 and a GP and the boy's school were informed but no further action was taken until last year when the boy, who is now an adult, went to a police station in a distressed condition and revealed what had happened to them.

Mr O'Donohoe said Kipling was arrested and when questioned partly admitted his guilt. Richard Pratt, defending, said that Kipling has no previous convictions.

He had pleaded guilty and has not committed any offences since these matters ceased.